The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Hematite

A valuable iron ore, consisting chiefly of peroxide of iron. It occurs in large quantities, its two chief varieties being red and brown hematite. An earthy kind, called iron-froth, consists almost entirely of iron. Brown hematite contains about 14 per cent of water. See RED HEMATITE.

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